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It depends. A pneumatic engine doesn't require any more energy to make than an ICE. Since it's much simpler, it should actually require less. Though, your mechanics teacher is referring specifically to the batteries in electric powered vehicles. OTOH, with the massive amount of waste heat created compressing air, it'...
In the United States, interactions between police and citizens fall into three general categories: consensual (“contact” or “conversation”), detention (often called a Terry stop, after Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968)), or arrest. “Stop and identify” laws pertain to detentions. - WIKI When these Law Enforcement Offic...
It's really not as much of a reality as this article suggests. Naomi Wolf is a sensation author who often provides no, or misleading, sources. If you actually read the News21 link she provides to claim "Disney sites are controlled by facial recognition technology," you'll find that the article doesn't support that at a...
Apple, along with Google got hauled before the Senate because of that. Here are some facts that came out of it. The information Apple was tracking never left the device. Apple claimed it was a bug and released a patch a couple weeks later rectifying the problem. >“Apple is deeply committed to protecting the privacy...
I think most people don’t understand what it means that this is a design patent – it’s not the same thing as a “regular” patent (a utility patent). Design patents allow a company to get an exclusive right to the form of a functional object so that a 3rd party can’t make a different device with identical appearance (wel...
Microsoft has one for the Xbox, George Lucas got one for Yoda etc. The look of an xbox, or Yoda, are NOT the same as a plain rectangle with rounded corners.
First off, for Locksmitthing, just imagine a sufficiently advanced drone app that launches off a quad with a [snap gun]( to the clients door, all hours, charged to credit card. The future burrito bomber of lock picking. Now, in general, as far as protecting jobs from automation goes, I refer you to the printing pres...
you can't interview everyone every year and ask for every piece of software they want to use along with the version they need Bullshit. It's trivial to do this. You don't need to interview everyone on a one-to-one basis; just run a script to compile what software a user has been granted through Active Directory or SC...
Quick! Someone call Stephen Hawking! I'm almost certain that you know so little about what you're talking about, that your grey matter has been replaced by antimatter. He may yet be able to come up with a legitimate use for that which inexplicably exists beneath your thick skull. Creating and maintaining images for eac...
I really hate people that bitch about the start menu and start screen. That cascading cluster fuck of a "menu" was the worst thing ever to be included in Windows since it's inception. Fuck that noise! It can't be managed. It's kinda like the Saved Games folder. Software makers don't give a fuck and just throw icons and...
Microsoft does actually make hardware and it demonstrates what they seek to do with the unified experience. It demonstrates that one experience doesn't mean one interface or one paradigm. The Surface Pro is a single device that unifies the tablet and traditional PC. It is a Windows 8 Pro device with a touch screen....
I have to add that phone insurance can be a lifesaver. I'm careful with my phones and have sometimes used the same one for 3+ years, but I bought a phone a couple years ago that had just come out.. turns out the charging port was prone to becoming loose after even moderate usage and would eventually stop charging. And ...
The issue with sprint 4G is they implemented 4G WIMAX everywhere to try and beat everyone to the punch, everyone else went LTE and now sprint has to bend to the will of the phone manufacturers who don't want to make both an LTE and WIMAX version of phones. If you had good 4G and don't anymore get an LTE phone, if you ...
I had a similar problem... in the middle of Chicago where they were actually providing "real" 4G service. It was terrible at best. Their "unlimited" plans are complete bogus, because the quality they provide is very low. On their brand new, at the time 4G network, I got maybe 3mbit internet connection while my friends ...
I currently have Sprint and I live paycheck to paycheck. I switched jobs and was working this new one for 2 weeks when my boss had a question about my availability for the next week. He claimed he called my phone 10+ times over two days and every time it told him the phone was no longer in service. Not only was I at ho...
As a former manager at sprint that worked there for over 5 years and left on good terms I can confirm they are the worst. This goes from the overall network quality, to how they treat employees, and ends with the overall impression customers get. The commission structure is changed every year and quotas change month...
I can attest to this from an employer's view. Well, from what my father has told me. He used to be a field technician for Sprint. Whenever a cell site went "down", he was given an alert and had the option of resetting the site/calling the main switch to do some stuff idk what. If nothing worked he had to travel to th...
My thoughts exactly. I've had sprint for 10 and I've only had one instance with bad customer service....and ending up getting a free phone upgrade but the service itself in my area is nice. I have 4g at the workplace and 3g about 5 minutes on the commute and 4g the rest of the way home. I have great 4g coverage at home...
I changed from sprint to Verizon due to virtually no coverage at my house. Sprint let me out of my contract early because my address was off their grid of coverage. I mailed my sprint phone in their provided packaging. Thought I was done..... That's what I get for thinking, again... Got a bill for $550 a Month l...
I have a theory on this, which may have been true a few years ago when post-pay plans were the better deal...maybe not so much nowadays that pre-paid plans are really taking off: Source: I used to work at several RadioShack stores from 2005-2008 in various neighborhoods of varying socio-economic rankings. Sprint ha...
If you live in the Orlando Florida area do not get Sprint. When they had the 4GWimax, I had amazing signal that was just as good as wifi anywhere in Orlando. However with the new 4g LTE, Even downtown, my connection is so bad... Basically my phone just switches from 3g to 4g constantly and because it's switching betwee...
I was tricked into keeping Sprint. I live in Birmingham, Alabama, and got a phone from a local Sprint about two months ago. At the time I was told I had 14 days to try the phone without penalty ($300+). I quickly realized that 'Sprint' was a misnomer (they should actually call it "potential unlimited data"), but that...
I guess "iDen" is what you call WIMAX internally or something. Basically what happened was sprint was the first kid on the block in most areas with 4G. How did they accomplish this? They implemented a WIMAX network because it was the newest fastest technology at the time, it is quite literally Wifi on steroids. It w...
So, you want to move 10 GB per month at dialup speeds? That's ridiculous, especially if you are taking steps to get an expensive handset. Have you seen Sprint's LTE map? Come on... I'm sure that is nice. I don't know that area well enough, but I know having LTE where you spend a good portion of your time is nice. I...
What the hell are you going on about? The question was: >I wonder how feasible something like this would be in the US. My answer is it would be much more difficult in the US, for the reasons mentioned. If you are actually that daft, I am assuming the same density threshold would be used for both nations to determ...
You said politics aside. Politics aside, it would be okay to say fuck off to large mostly unpopulated area not near the coast or the great lakes. You keep mentioning the rural areas like Montana, Utah, Colorado, etc......I already said, FUCK THEM. I mean, how hard is it to comprehend that if Australia can do it for 2...
Attention ladies and gentlemen, 'the catch': The Japanese government is willing to fund half the construction of a DC to Baltimore (but only to the BWI airport) maglev route ON THE CONDITION that the US pays the remaining cost for a route that extends through Philadelphia and New York to Boston. That's a very very...
It really depends on how you define government regulations. You're happily considering what government currently isn't doing (stopping Duke) as a government regulation, but you're forgetting that what government did to enable Duke to do its bad things in the first place is also government regulation. Without govern...
You replied twice to me so I'll just respond to one. You're overlooking the major historical facts. Germany's railways were bombed to shit in WWII. Between that and Reunification, the country had carte blanche for rebuilding activities. Same with Japan. If you need proof - look at older cities which were left mostly in...
I can buy a 1 TB harddrive for like $50. The blockchain is currently just under 20 GB right now I think, after 5 years of transactions. So right now, I can store the blockchain like 50 times over for only 50 bucks. If there was more or less the same amount/size of transactions over every 5 year period (unlikely, will ...
When Reddit wishes a sub to die, for either being awful or for gaining too much power it is condemned to the brutal, scorching exposure to millions of hits on the FrontPage Wasteland - where intelligent, informed discussion is ignored because
Who the hell wrote that title. Online data does have 4th amendment protection. Read the article! The 4th amendment: > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probabl...
Rooting (but not unlocking) will allow you access to uninstall apps. However, even rooted you can't simply "uninstall" the app, you have to use something to remove it. Many times it is safer to just freeze it (such as with titanium backup). What causes the instability or issue with updates is that if the system f...
You don't really need to unlock your bootloader if you just want to be rooted. [Towelroot]( will do that. Rooting will allow you to run titanium backup and "freeze" apps you don't want running. You can use uninstaller programs to remove the apps if you want them fully gone. If you want to install the latest andro...
Really the problem is not really "regulation" but roll-out. Local municipalities and utilities own the right-of-way agreements allowing utilities to pass their wires over public and private land. Obtaining these right-of-way agreements is very expensive, involving surveys, attorneys, and substantial payments to priv...
I don't know about the Federal Government stepping in to help out. Their dollars are for the nation, not single towns. If the Fed helped out a single town, it would set a precedent for the government to be obligated to help out any other town that built such a network. In the 1930s, the government helped out with the e...
To really get the most out of cable internet you want to buy your own cable modem (theirs could have terrible custom firmware). If you want to take it further, buy a router based on hardware specs (like an Asus that is heavy on clock speed and RAM) and flash custom firmware on it like tomato. Then check your physic...
I spent some time researching this a bit ago because I was seeing it everywhere. It's not Coop/USF/BTOP; it is subsidies that were given to Verizon (and AT&T I think, but the articles I've read talk about Verizon) to provide FTTH in several states ([Pennsylvania]( and [New York](
It's hard not to take it personally, but Comcast is notorious for doing this regardless (and often in spite) of good performance. All of the great feedback and attempts to have your contract bought out wasn't necessarily intended to give you false hope, so much as a long shot given your short-term contract. As you sa...
Yup, I lost a great job/opportunity when someone falsely reported me for defaming the General Manager of the company. I loved the job I was doing, I was getting good pay and had great prospects to move up and was in a position that allowed me to have constant communication with upper management and I had already build ...
How is it possible to simultaneously disagree with a Comcast/TimeWarner merger, but promote swallowing kool-aid? That merger depends on people consuming the exact same advice you're giving right now; ignore your values, help powers larger than what you control essentially own you. You could make way more money and ...
This reminds me how I was fired from my last job: I was an assistant manager at an hotel. The manager had taken around 2 weeks off to get married, back at their home-country. All this was planned a year before - so I was ready to take responsibility as the acting manager. Anyway, the day the manager leaves, the bos...
yea recently I canceled HD services. I still have cable and pay for the package that includes HD channels, but comcast normally charges a $10 "Hd Technology Fee" to enable the viewing of HD content. I canceled this fee and the DVR fee. Comcast sent me a notice that they had mistakenly not billed me for those servic...
This. The real issue is that a lot of countries have a strong socialist aspect to them and things like broadband speeds and penetration become things of national pride almost. They don't leave it to the market to decide. Here in the US, we just let the free market run it all. Cable providers bully towns into signin...
I think the point of NuGet is more so to ensure every developer working on the same project has the necessary files to compile said project, while also making it easier to manage dependencies and update libraries. This seems to serve another purpose, and I'm not sure what. It's a neat feature, but do we really need r...
Apple has built a little slab of Disneyland with its iPad, which is meant to be an experience unsullied by provocative or crude material. It’s beautiful and enticing — the company has already sold more than a half million of them in the first two weeks it’s been available — but it’s not the real world. I propose a ne...
I have a Dell laptop. Backlight started acting funny, so I start chatting with a support guy, very clearly an American. After a quick diagnosis, he tells me one of the backlight components needs to be replaced. The next morning, a (not at all skeezy) technician shows up at my place, and 20 minutes later it's fixed.
It's not the users acting uncivilized, it's Apple. Apple hasn't censored just one voice they've censored many. I'm not talking about just the past, but the future. Future satirists have little reason to spend the time/money making apps for Apple when they know it could all be wasted. Don't you think that Apple has been...
As I've said elsewhere, I don't agree with Apple's unnecessarily strict policies, but I do feel they have the right to run their ship the way they want to. As you yourself said, the iPhone is really the first (and still the only) smartphone that is governed by its creator. That's not news either, the iPhone has been ou...
which, by the way, I actually know happen to know a few things about. (We'll get to that.) You see, I served cheapskates like you for years. Luckily, you were far outnumbered by decent human beings who weren't opportunistic and selfish enough to arbitrarily find ways to save money at the expense of other people. B...
At my store we'd hype some amazing deals (such as 70% off or whatnot) in a newspaper ad on a few high margin items just to get people in the door, but the cost on these items is almost nothing so the store still makes money off them. However the point isn't to make money or even sell those items, the whole idea is just...
Somewhat of a threadjack, but if anyone is interested in living out this commercial in real life, and happen to live in the Seattle area, there is a company that rents classic Rolls Royce limos, complete with bottles of Grey Poupon. I believe it is called British Coaches (yes Ive heard of google but c'mon Im on my Dro...
Hmm. If this actually blocks people from using Google, wouldn't this be a very workable DoS of Google by use of a large Zombie net of PCs, thereby blocking any NAT'd networks?
I can't help but feel what we've seen this year is the begin of the slow decline of Netflix and similar streaming services. First there was a price hike for those who want streaming + DVDs. Reasonable, but it came after months and months of advertising "get DVDs by mail AND get unlimited streaming for free!" Now th...
I am 5 miles from the nearest 'big town' that has cable/dsl. I have to use 3G wireless from Verizon (grandfathered Alltel contract, no 5gb cap). When it was Alltel, i'd get 2-3mb down and 1mb up but since the merger the best I get is at tops 1mb down and .25 up. So I don't even have the luxury of streaming even 1 thing...
Good for you. No, I understand fine, however, as I've stated in several other comments, you can dual stream, sometimes. I can get my pc on my tv to stream, wait a few minutes and start another stream. however, on occasion it will gripe about more than 1 stream. Seems it is a bit flakey. Guess what...
Those 62 people might have been able to be saved by this device. Ok, let's say I'm psychic. I can predict which buildings will have fires and which will not. I can even predict which people will be around when the fire is a threat, just not which ones will die. Let's say that some buildings catch fire twice each y...
Wow, this article is full of crap and fear mongering. The word "attack" is used 13 times and there wasn't even a real attack! This kind of thing is best described as spying or information gathering. Considering the current state of Wall Street, I don't think that gathering more information on companies financial tran...
context of a larger clause and makes perfect sense. I'll take on your "bigger picture" comment. In your larger picture, wars with other nuclear powers are now instead fought via economics. China and the US will never go to war because they're tied economically at the hip. What is bad for one, is bad for the other. ...
Please don't let up now. SOPA will still harm . We need to give them a sharp kick in the nuts by killing SOPA and PROTECT IP stone dead, or the insanity will never end until they completely control our culture through their paid off congressional proxies.
Because the internet is a vehicle for free information, and that will always include piracy. There are ways to combat it, but it's a battle that will ultimately be lost for the media producers, and won for the pirates. That's the future in a world with an internet. It's old media, or new media, there is no true comprom...
They already do put all of the pending legislation up. There are government sites and OpenCongress.org is independent and non partisan. All of the bills are filled with legalese that makes it hard for anyone but insiders to understand. And even then, it's not just what the bill says but also what can be interpreted...
Yes, but Obama's idea of "fixed" doesn't match mine or the ideas of many people on Reddit. He publicly stated that he didn't have a problem with the indefinite detention part of the bill--he's been arguing that the Constitution gives him that right anyway--but he objected to the language that seemed to require that te...
I think you must have misread what I wrote while you were unbunching your panties. I you reread what I've written (slowly this time), you'll see I never claimed that "HBO is the frontrunner of technology," or anything to that effect. I said that there are legitimate, business-related reasons that HBO hasn't created a...
Kinda relevant: Haven't had HBO in 6 years, but have been told to get it for GoT. Finally just went out and bought the first season on BRD. The show is awesome. AWESOME. I plan on watching this season with a friend who has a group over to watch it together as I have no intention to pay the premium channel price f...
Here's how: HBO's business model is not what you think it is. HBO gets paid a giant lump of $$$ by it's cable/dish partners (Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, etc) regardless of subscribers. HBO is paid by these partners simply so they may have the "privilege" of offering HBO as part of their lineup. As such, Verizo...
Its FUD though. Cable and satellite companies are already feeling the pain of losing subscribers, partially due to the economy, and partially due to cord cutters. To remove an extremely popular and profitable channel would weaken their position further, alienate customers further, and cause the loss of even more sub...
HBO, Please allow me to pay you $25+ a month for access to your programming online and quit it with this silly stuff. You could even have different subscription levels that dictated how many hours of you programming we could watch a month. For unlimited viewing make it cost as much or more than the channel. People ...
No I'm not. For one, I'm not in my twenties. Two, I design studios, media distribution and asset management systems, etc. I have a distinct familiarity with the costs of production, the costs of distribution, and the various methods. Before I go any further - next time you reply to a comment, leave the hidden sni...
I do the same thing. I've been paying my $100/month tv subscription for a year now and have literally never watched a show on it. I tried when I first got it, thinking I should try being legit but the UI for my DVR/Channel browsing is slow and clunky. I already have an awesome filing system and media center setup so I ...
Indeed. Cable companies are already watching themselves fail; once they cancel the good shows they're out of business. If they start to lower the value of their service, that will push many people over the edge and make them switch to the Internet.
Their viewing software sucks. I love The Wire and when I was a HBO subscriber I tried watch all the seasons on HBOGo.com. Somewhere in the middle of the fourth season I gave up. I couldn't handle any more sudden lost of the video steaming in the middle of watching an episode and being told that I wasn't logge din or so...
K. Wait just a second here. I agree that this step is over the line and too much, but the fact that we on the internet are so obsessed with pirating is NOT a good thing. Yes, pirating is very much like copying a CD and giving it to a friend, but there is an obvious distinction between the two. One is limited inherently...
In Australia, HBO have a streaming service. What they don't have is a cable deal. As far as I can tell, HBO's business model is based around using cable company revenue to fund expensive, complex drama, secure in the knowledge that they're capturing an affluent demographic that's hard to reach any other way. Offering...
I like the choice of the Unabomber instead of MLK Jr or Gandhi, whose civil disobedience methods are infinitely more applicable to this situation than the methods of an anarchist murderer. No one is suggesting you walk into your local radio station and blow it up. It's like using Hitler as your example for a Christia...
And thus you prove my point. The fact remains that the law requires you pay for content you consume. Despite the bleatings of many on this site and others, you don't "own" the content, you are simply licensing its use. I personally have no problem with that. Indeed, I'm happy to pay for content to ensure that the...
they used it to check materials for impurities as well as neutron radiography testing.
I once worked with a guy who had a friend who worked security at Texas Instruments, in Attleboro Mass. He swore to me that "TI" had a small reactor like the one in this story. He saw it on a screen in the security office when his friend gave him a tour. There was a group of screens showing the grounds, and this one s...
Oh, hell yes, they did. I had a summer job one year that consisted of inventorying hundreds (if not thousands) of different chemical products by literally going out to the warehouse, and going through every little tray of bottles, one at a time, and counting the bottles, one at a time. The only protective gear / prac...
It depends entirely on what you consider better. More gigahertz, more gigabyte, and less moneys is not what makes a computer better. Build quality, portability, compatibility, ease of use, and battery life are concerns for people who can't tell a gigabytes from gigahertz. It isn't just hardware, it is also software. St...
Apple operates a closed source software and closed source hardware business model, the average Apple computer customer believes that the build and care quality justify living within the closed source and higher price ecosystem. The battery in question within the Retina MacBook Pro is MASSIVE. It is a 95 Watt-hour bat...
Why is there some arbitrary and rigid line between ultrabooks and 'regular' laptops? The new MBP is basically in between the two. It's bigger and more powerful than any Ultrabook on the market that I'm aware of, but portability is clearly a very high design priority. It's a very appealing product to a lot of people....
I've read you post similar comments other places in this thread. You just don't understand how batteries work. You can destroy it in 200 cycles if you don't maintain it. Stop using the word "defective" because that's just your way of refusing to take any responsibility for the maintenance of your computer. Figure out...
I was speaking in wide strokes. Obviously it needs to be intrepted to modern standards, but some of the interpretations people throw out are just patently absurd and try to erode the document itself, which I dislike.
You sound like every other Windows fanboy out there. I could insert some insult here, but I'm not going to stoop to your level. You're information about Linux is 10+ years out-of-date. Linux distros targeted towards "average users" like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and etc. are no more complicated to use than Mac OS X. I'm s...
So you want a service and other systems can't provide that service so bitching about paying 60 dollars for something you want and enjoy. Pay and enjoy it and not bitch about the price. As for the inferior product, yes it is inferior. But for basic searches it works and they pay you for it. If its not worth the 5 b...
If that's the implication in his post, then I completely misunderstood it. I guess I assumed he had a clue how the Google Maps/Apple Maps situation occurred. Apple used to pay Google for their map data. Google wanted too much money and Apple played hardball in negotiations, eventually making good on threats that they...
Wow you are a fucking retard. I work as a sysadmin and specifically do pen-testing as a large portion of my income. "Salting" a hash does in no way imply that each salt is unique. That is a strong implementation and sadly not used by the majority of people who implement salting. I know what you were taught in your...
I laugh at you mortals, trusting your stuff to programs that will inevitably break. - Protodong Dude just make an algorithm in your head to make strong passwords. I have many. Follow certain rules such as: no plain english phrases in natural order. Use nonstandard letter substitutions. And use padding. This is a...
Considering even in the FBI,CIA and the Vatican / destroying sensitive data. Shit these guys should be taken in on terrorist charges. Do they need to be brown to be considered so? That law could single handedly create the most elaborate backdoor into millions of computers, on all govenrments' users and governments ...
If you really believe that, you don't know much about how the Internet functions. Law enforcement is all but powerless and thats not likely to change in the forseeable future. If anything, the Internet has proven itself quite capable of being several steps ahead of them for nearly two decades now. There's simply too ma...
Yes it is, it says so." In theory, sure lets just say The Constitution is the highest law but I don't give a shit about theory. Lets talk about reality: The Constitution is an ideal set of principles, keyword being ideal . The Constitution upholds good principles, but there are many laws that aren't made in accordan...
If he's able to get those records, which might not even exist, it wouldn't change anything, since at best, it would show where his phone, which he may or may not have had on him, was at the time of the robbery.
I love this country and its history, I feel almost special knowing I'm a natural born citizen. On the other hand our countrys policies are not in any way beneficial to us. They spread lies and scare us into being afraid, but one day they won't be able to scare us. One day WE WILL have to fight again for the future of t...
If I were on the jury I suppose I'd have to take this into account. Government vs. defendant. Gov claims that defendant is guilty. Defendant says Gov has exculpatory evidence, which they are required to release if they have it. Recent revelations show the Gov does have the evidence in question. Gov refuses to rel...
In the above, I was not arguing against the notion that copyrights are necessary for some economic incentive. That's more complicated. If that's the argument, then discussing lots and lots of things mentioned in the other response to your post seems almost necessary. You seemed to dismiss that argument in such a way th...
agentassfuck (...) is comparing the default frontpage to pop music. Pleasing to the masses, not exactly specialized but simple enough that it can appeal to a broad audience. Pop music is marketed to music's largest audience, similar to reddit's front page. Posting what you know is well received by the masses will n...
You know what man? You need to wake the fuck up to reality. The REALITY is that as soon as you publish something, you have by definition OPENED IT UP FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION. You can make the punishment as high as you want but once the information is out there, people can and WILL take it. Some of them will feel as ...
Fuck you. Only government people are stupid. Always.
It is the job the lawyers to present the case, so the jury doesn't need to know about the subject if you have a good attorney. I don't suggest that this is a good thing, but it is why juries of Joe & Jill average can decide whether a security protocol violates a patent. If the lawyer gets good, reliable witnesses, ...